[ale] please bow your head for a moment of silence...

[Solomon Peachy]

On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 06:41:40PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> You systemd guys just can't help using the Appeal to Novelty Fallacy,
> can you? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_novelty)

Who said I'm a systemd guy?  And since you're such a fan of logical 
fallacies, I shouldn't have to point out that you're committing appeals 
to tradition, with an unhealthy dose of appealing to authority 
sandwiching moralistic fallacies.

> Just because newer phones are better (in most regards) than older
> phones doesn't mean that newer inits are better than older inits.

But that also doesn't mean that newer inits _aren't_ better than older 
inits -- Congratulations, you just committed a another logical fallacy.  
Now its precise name escapes me, but I'm sure that you and your superior 
grasp of logical fallacies can educate us.

> And of course, systemd is about the same age as superior inits like
> Runit and s6.

Now who's appealing to novelty?  Meanwhile, "superior" is a subjective 
term, and if you're being remotely intellectually honest, you will 
concede that others might use different evaluation criteria and as such, 
might come to different conclusions.  Otherwise, you're just begging 
the question and/or commiting circular reasoning.

If you want to live by the fallacy, be prepared to die by the fallacy.

Meanwhile, I don't have anything better to do than keep this thread 
going until Irma rips the roof off my building.  C'est la vie.

 - Solomon
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Solomon Peachy			       pizza at shaftnet dot org
Coconut Creek, FL                          ^^ (email/xmpp) ^^
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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